The High Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, refused to promulgate the law relating to the autonomy of public universities, at the end of February, although it had been adopted during the last parliamentary session of 2021. The teachers have therefore went on strike for two days at the University of Antananarivo.
With our correspondent in Antananarivo, Laura Verneau
Deserted rooms, empty chairs and a silent hall, these were two dead days at the University of Antananarivo, April 11 and 12. Two days of strikes organized by the union of teacher-researchers to protest against the abandonment of the law on the autonomy of universities
More latitude for teachers
The text was to give more latitude to teachers on the freedom of education, the budgetary principles. However, the highest court of the country considered this text contrary to the Constitution on these same points An affront to the profession.
For Lily Razafimbelo, teacher and trade unionist, the financial management of the university no longer makes sense: ” My last overtime payment was in 2017 – 2018, and I only touched it in 2021. In addition to the delay, I had to go and collect them at the post office. »
Regional management?
The union also fears the closure of the university’s bank accounts, scheduled for April 30 by the Ministry of Finance. For Toavina Ralambomahay, political analyst, the autonomy of universities is precisely very political, well beyond what the law says. For real autonomy, he suggests the management of establishments by the regions.
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